Adobe Photoshop CS

Advanced Level 

Photoshop is so much more than an image-editor: its layers, channels, paths and adjustments, combined with actions and histories, make it a veritable power tool for all those dealing with photographic imagery. From enhancements to special effects, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

Useful to you if:

you need to produce professional-standard enhanced retouching, repairs, or complex photographic effects.

Before the course, you should:

be using Photoshop regularly and confidently;

be using layers, paths and channels with ease;

be familiar with shortcuts, filters and the main palettes and menubar options.

At the end of the day’s course you will:

• have produced a complex layered file, special typographic effects, and a photo-montage with cloning;

• be armed with advanced tips on how to improve workflow;

• be confident using actions, masks, and adjustment layers;

• be aware of integration issues between this and other software;

• know some expert-user keyboard shortcuts.

Course contents (may vary slightly):

Fundamentals recap

Title bar window spec.s

Colour wheel, colour channels

Histograms, modes, colour management

CMYK-RGB conversion: issues

System requirements, scratch disks

Palette management

Tools and Palettes

Options, browsing

Vector tools

Paths and selections

Cutouts, considerations, paths to selections

Multiple path export, channel - path - export

Selections: modifying, transforming, colour range, variations

Alpha channel selections and combinations

Bump maps, masks, calculations

Perspective straightening

Colour conversion

Colour mode conversion, gamut warnings (view)

Colour sampler; info palette

Adding to swatches

Specials; procedure for 5th colours

Layers

Layer effects, layer modes, layer styles

Changing order

Masking adjustments

Adjustments

Levels, curves, adjustment layers

Shadow/highlight, histogram

Correcting colour casts; variations (parameters)

Spot colours, duotone specifics, EPS and DCS

Info palette, colour sampler

Restorative work

Blur/gaussian blur (web + focal considerations)

Noise: dust and scratches, sharpen/unsharp mask

Channel separations

High pass, blending options

Simple effects

Photographic edges, neon type, photo-montage

Layer modes, styles

Realistic reflections, shadows

Plug-ins, filters

Posterisation, solarisation, Inverting

Brush effects, history brush

3d, filters, plug-ins

Distortion warps

Resolution

Print requirements vs web requirements, JPG standards, PNGs etc

Pixel dimensions

Canvas size, crop tool specifics

Workflow

Quick colour selection

Drag-dropping multiple layer, folders and layers, position on paste

Best formats, optimising for web: 1-4 up, droplets

Actions: recording, saving, setting up batch process

Saving

Save options, file formats for inDesign, web etc

Placing in Illustrator

Archiving, printing

Keyboard shortcuts

Project achievements:

Complex layered files

Special typographic effects

Photo-montage

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